On Jung: Updated Edition / Edition 2

by Anthony Stevens

Overview

Here Anthony Stevens examines every stage of Jung's personal and professional development to throw light on his theories of the life cycle, dream symbolism, and the collective unconscious. Jung's life experience made him a profound, stimulating, and immensely influential writer on almost every aspect of human behavior; this lucid and penetrating study makes the ideal introduction to his life and ideas. This new edition contains a preface intended as a rebuttal to the recent attacks on Jung made by Noll and McLynn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691010489
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	10/24/1999
Edition description:	Updated Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anthony Stevens has worked as a Jungian analyst and psychiatrist for the past thirty years. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford and, in addition to his medical degree, he has two degrees in psychology. His previous books include Ariadne's Clue (Princeton), Archetype: A Natural History of the Self, The Roots of War, The Two-Million-Year-Old Self, Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming, and, with John Price, Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xi

PART I: JUNG'S PSYCHOLOGY

1 The personal equation 3

2 The unconscious 11

3 Metapsychology: Jung's model of the psyche 27

4 Personal development and the stages of life 54

PART II: FROM BIRTH TO MATURITY

5 Childhood 77

6 Adolescent transition 117

7 Early maturity 145

8 Mid-life transition 164

PART III: FROM MID-LIFE TO DEATH

9 Middle age 183

10 Late-life transition 221

11 Late maturity 225

12 Conclusion 255

Afterword Jung's Adversary: Richard Noll 275

Postscript 293

Bibliography 295

Index 301

What People are Saying About This

Anthony Storr

Many potential readers of Jung feel intimidated by Jung's style and the sheer bulk of his collected works. They could do no better than to turn to Anthony Stevens for enlightenment. He is an exceptionally clear expositor of Jung's thought.

Wendy Brown

This is the work of an extremely smart, careful, and widely read scholar; it is also well-written and imaginative.
— Wendy Brown, University of California, Santa Cruz

James Jarrett

From the beginning of this book, the reader is aware of being in the presence of a seasoned and highly knowledgeable scholar and practitioner....The writing is clear and graceful....This work is distinctive, original in its organization, and pleasing to read.

From the Publisher

"From the beginning of this book, the reader is aware of being in the presence of a seasoned and highly knowledgeable scholar and practitioner.... The writing is clear and graceful.... This work is distinctive, original in its organization, and pleasing to read."—James Jarrett, University of California, Berkeley

"Many potential readers of Jung feel intimidated by Jung's style and the sheer bulk of his collected works. They could do no better than to turn to Anthony Stevens for enlightenment. He is an exceptionally clear expositor of Jung's thought."—Anthony Storr

"This is the work of an extremely smart, careful, and widely read scholar; it is also well-written and imaginative."—Wendy Brown, University of California, Santa Cruz

Editorial Reviews

"In On Jung, Anthony Stevens offers an informative and clear explanation of the basic principles of Jungian psychology.... Stevens skillfully employs object relations theory in his analysis.... His treatment of the history of Jung's family and the impact of its dynamics on Jung's personality is refreshingly honest."—-John-Raphael Staude, The Times Literary Supplement

From the Publisher

In On Jung, Anthony Stevens offers an informative and clear explanation of the basic principles of Jungian psychology.... Stevens skillfully employs object relations theory in his analysis.... His treatment of the history of Jung's family and the impact of its dynamics on Jung's personality is refreshingly honest.

The Times Literary Supplement - John-Raphael Staude

In On Jung, Anthony Stevens offers an informative and clear explanation of the basic principles of Jungian psychology.... Stevens skillfully employs object relations theory in his analysis.... His treatment of the history of Jung's family and the impact of its dynamics on Jung's personality is refreshingly honest.
— John-Raphael Staude

The Times Literary Supplement

Carl Jung's mother withdrew into depressive illness; his father, a pastor, lost his faith and suffered feelings of spiritual impotence. These influences, writes Stevens, made Jung ``a lifelong gnostic,'' an introspective quester who was driven to seek out forceful father-figures like Freud. Jung's love-at-first-sight encounter with his future wife, Emma Rauschenbach, was ``a classic case of anima projection.'' Stevens, a Jungian analyst and author of The Roots of War , sees Jung's midlife breakdown, a four-year descent into madness, as an archetypal journey of isolation, initiation and return. Brimming with fresh insights, this Jungian biography of Jung throws sharp light on the inner recesses of his psyche, showing how his personal makeup shaped the therapeutic system he created. Jung's ``psychology was also a cosmology,'' ascribing to the individual's life a divine or cosmic significance. Stevens relates Jung's ideas on individuation and the collective unconscious to this larger perspective. Photos. (July)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Jungian analyst Stevens shows how the disciplines of analytical psychology grew, in all significant respects, out of Jung's own psychology. He outlines the basic principles of Jungian psychology, and uses Jung's life to illustrate the theories of psychological development and such basic concepts as the archetype, persona, shadow, anima, animus, the collective unconscious, and the individuation of the Self. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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